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appalachiablue

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3. Amen! DeJoy's 'austerity' & efforts to privatize the USPS
Wed Jan 12, 2022, 01:26 PM
Jan 2022

for profit, which has been a longterm goal. So many people are unaware of this wreckage. I appreciate and support the USPS and its employees, to the max!
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*WaPo More: Norton added that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, who has been widely criticized for a plan that would slow delivery times and raise prices, “has to go.”

“All we need is a majority of the postal board to make that happen,” Norton said.

Federal Election Commission dismisses complaints against USPS chief DeJoy over alleged ‘straw-donor scheme’

Amid mail delays, protesters planned to gather Wednesday in D.C. ahead of a Postal Service board of governors meeting where new leadership will be selected.

Emily Yen, an organizer with the Democratic Socialists of America who helped plan the rally, said DeJoy’s plans will slow the mail, disenfranchising the 46 percent of Americans who voted by mail in the last election. The board probably will elect conservative leadership, she said, making it more difficult to replace the postmaster...

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